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1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. Using speech rather than writing.
8. An unofficial association of people or groups.
12. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
16. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
17. Consisting of or made up of bone.
18. A French abbot.
19. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
20. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
21. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
22. (`lief' is archaic) Very willing.
23. Expel, as of gases and odors.
24. By bad luck.
26. A loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail.
28. A large fleet.
30. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
32. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
34. The brightest star in Ursa Minor.
38. A genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae.
41. Open and observable.
42. United States writer remembered as the secretary and companion of Gertrude Stein (1877-1967).
46. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
47. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
48. The month following August and preceding October.
52. Jam-spread sponge cake soaked in wine served with custard sauce.
55. Raise in a relief.
56. Cut off from a whole.
57. An oil port in southern Iraq.
58. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
59. An extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America).
61. The largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. Type genus of the Apidae.
67. A quick look.
69. (used in combination) "the economy-size package".
70. Basal part of a plant ovule opposite the micropyle.
72. Having the skin scraped off.
75. Footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material.
78. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
79. The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service.
80. A fibrous amphibole.
87. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
88. The product of voltage and current.
90. Any of various orchids of the genus Bletia having pseudo-bulbs and erect leafless racemes of large purple or pink flowers.
91. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
92. (Norse mythology) The chief race of gods living at Asgard.
93. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
95. Black tropical American cuckoo.
96. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
97. Offering little or no hope.
98. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
99. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
4. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
5. Of or relating to the Gypsies or their language or culture.
6. Moth whose larvae are flour moths.
7. Minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root.
8. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
9. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
10. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
11. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
12. Violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements).
13. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930).
14. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
15. Stalk of a moss capsule.
25. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
27. An associate degree in nursing.
29. A parallelogram with four equal sides.
31. The products of human creativity.
33. An associate degree in applied science.
35. Involving only main features.
36. Type genus of the Lepismatidae.
37. Loose or flaccid body fat.
39. Recruit for a union.
40. Characterized by malposition.
43. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
44. A fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II.
45. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
49. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
50. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
51. Any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres.
53. A woman who is engaged to be married.
54. Spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key.
60. French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687).
62. An affirmative.
64. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
65. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
68. Genus of New Zealand mat-forming herbs or subshrubs.
71. A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal (27,890 feet high).
73. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
74. A marine turtle.
76. A city of central China.
77. Excessively fat.
81. Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.
82. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
83. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
84. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
85. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
86. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
89. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
94. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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